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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress read more
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
There is properly no history, only biography.
There is properly no history, only biography.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
